Long letter (2 pages) handwritten and signed by R. Yitzchak Isaac Sher, dean of the "Knesset Israel" Yeshiva. Slabodka (suburb of Kovno, Lithuania), 7 Adar I 1938.

Sent to London, addressed to "… R. [ Yechezkel] Abramsky... Av Beit Din of London", his wife and family. R. Yitzchak Isaac thanks him for his financial support of the yeshiva, writing, then writes about other matters, including the establishment of the Torah journal "Knesset Israel" and its purpose.

R. Yitzchak Isaac Sher (1875-1952), an exceptional Torah scholar, one of the great leaders of the Mussar movement. He studied in the yeshivas of Hlusk, Volozhin, Slutsk and Slabodka. After marrying the daughter of the "Alter of Slabodka", R. Natan Tzvi Finkel, he went to study for several years at the Kelm Yeshiva. He served as head of the Kollel in Kovno and as a rabbi in the "Knesset Israel" Yeshiva in Slabodka. After some of the Slabodka Yeshiva students left to establish the yeshiva in Hebron, R. Isaac was appointed Rosh Yeshiva of the Slabodka Yeshiva in Lithuania. At the outbreak of the Holocaust, he was in Switzerland, from where he immigrated to Palestine and established the Slabodka Yeshiva in Bnei Brak.

[1] leaf, official stationery. 29.5 cm. Written on both sides. Good condition. Stains. Minor tears at margins. Folding marks.

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